{"id":5757,"date":"2025-05-11T23:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/colgates-kids-toothpaste-encourages-unsafe-consumption-of-fluoride-lawsuit-claims\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T23:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T23:01:09","slug":"colgates-kids-toothpaste-encourages-unsafe-consumption-of-fluoride-lawsuit-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/colgates-kids-toothpaste-encourages-unsafe-consumption-of-fluoride-lawsuit-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Colgate&#8217;s &#8216;Kids&#8217; Toothpaste Encourages Unsafe Consumption of Fluoride, Lawsuit Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p>Colgate-Palmolive and its subsidiary Tom&#8217;s of Maine were hit with a consumer class action over allegations of deceptively marketing children&#8217;s fluoride toothpaste products by using candy flavoring, cartoon imagery and misleading packaging to encourage young children to swallow unsafe amounts of fluoride toothpaste.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p><b>Takeaway:<\/b> Colgate-Palmolive was hit with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/radar\/trends\/litigation-surge-class-actions-colgate-palmolive-514eea37-9e6b-4561-b221-74ab0284d27e\/data\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cluster of federal class actions<\/a> in February. At least three suits were filed, two of which center on the company&#8217;s Tom&#8217;s of Maine toothpaste products. One contends that strawberry-flavored Tom&#8217;s of Maine Kid&#8217;s Natural Fluoride-Free Toothpaste contains unsafe levels of lead and arsenic, and the other alleges that certain toothpaste products were made with bacteria-contaminated water, as revealed in a November report by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colgate-Palmolive and its subsidiary Tom&#8217;s of Maine were hit with a consumer class action over allegations of deceptively marketing children&#8217;s fluoride toothpaste products by using candy flavoring, cartoon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[300,5898,5901,5899,5902,1554,303,4420,5900],"class_list":["post-5757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-claims","tag-colgates","tag-consumption","tag-encourages","tag-fluoride","tag-kids","tag-lawsuit","tag-toothpaste","tag-unsafe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}